Volkswagen and Rivian agree to $5 billion partnership

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• CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The businesses are launching a joint venture to develop platforms for “software-defined vehicles.”

  Big oof.

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  • crawancon@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    that sounds just awful

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    • markon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You Lemmy drones to are the same as the Reddit ones thinking they smart but no one here smart including me because I posted this comment

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  • asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Enshittification on another whole level

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  • RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yay, subscriptions for everything! Car as a service! What’s not to like?? 🤮

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So I just need to run an Ansible playbook and my sedan turns into a pickup truck?

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  • mortalic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Isn’t this more or less what Tesla did?

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    • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know if they were the first, but they’re one of the most notorious offenders.

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    • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      VW has been doing it for years anyway.

      Multiple features of their infotainment are there but softlocked out, the engines on the more powerful trim levels aren’t different or tuned, it’s just a different ecu map, etc.

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  • fluxion@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    With the entire vehicle constructed from IoT components

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• n3cr0@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “You wouldn’t download a car.”

  Sounds like it’s time to turn my phone into a car already.

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  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t give Apple any ideas

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    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They just disbanded that project.

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